“According to a recent interview with GamesIndustry, the software house Stalker would be back operational, after a period of closure and the cancellation of the project Stalker 2.”
Valentine Yeltyshev, Team Manager of GSC Game World, told GamesIndustry that the software house of the unforgettable Stalker is back operating after a period of closure. He says the team has learned its lesson and wants to pursue a new project that focuses on the charm of the past games. It does not give detailed details, except to say that it is a game ” at full price. ”
Back to mention West Games, the studio that now seems to possess the rights to the marketing of games belonging to the brand Stalker. ” I do not know enough about them, but this story is absurd, ” says Yeltyshev. ”
They are defined as the team that created Stalker, but not true. When we were working on Stalker 2 we brought forward another parallel project, a browser game set in the universe of Stalker. In this way we would have kept the audience engaged in waiting release of the main game. ”
” This project was never finished, because it was full of flaws. And they were just the guys from West Games that were carrying out. That is, they claim to have worked on Stalker, but really the only thing I have done for Stalker is a flash game that never became public. If avviassimo legal action against them would win for sure, but we will not. I do not know what are their plans now, do not feel them for a long time.
” In short, the future of Stalker remains very smoky. What is certain is that in recent years, the real GSC Game World has flaked, and several veterans have tried to get hold of the brand Stalker. Why GSC can no longer use the name Stalker and West Games you?
Why not get sued if they are so confident of winning the case? We tried to clarify all these points with an interview published in West Games in July, when the development team of Ukraine claimed to be working on the follow spiritual Stalker.
Since July, things have changed dramatically, and what was once called Areal now is identified as Stalker Apocalypse. The team of independent development has launched a new crowd funding campaign, this time on the World Wide Funder. Asks 600 thousand dollars, and in the time of writing it has achieved little more than 15 thousand.
But this initiative, in turn, has generated much controversy, because someone thought that West Game and World Wide Funder were somehow related. According to an official statement issued by the same World Wide Funder, this confusion is created by the fact that Leonid Kovtun is part of the team of the management team of the site of crowd funding. This person would be very close to West Games, and it would be he who had made known to the development team of the new Stalker this financing platform.
World Wide Funder claims to be an honest site, offering features not found on other solutions of this type. As for Stalker Apocalypse, ” many people have asked us to close this project. But we can not do it, unless the creator of the project do not ask him, and in this case, all the contributions made to date will be refunded. We contacted West Games, and they have shown that they have the rights to use the name Stalker “.
” We hope that their project will be successful, and that people stop arguing. It seems a team of developers, and enthusiasts are able to create a great game. ”
While going on all these controversies, West Games seems to pour more fuel on the fire. Announced that one of the locations of the game Stalker Apocalypse will be that of North Korea. ” After that Sony has mistakenly canceled the release in cinemas of The Interview, we decided to publish our story earlier than expected on the Apocalypse in North Korea, ” it said in the last press release of West Games.
” To have given in to the demands of hacker creates a very dangerous precedent for the film industry and entertainment as a whole. We refuse to believe that the North Korean hackers can hope to get away with it, and we right now the content relating to North Korea. Stalker Apocalypse is a controversial project on his own, and this has led many people to try to do the hacking of our sites. But we are not afraid of them, nor should it in the entertainment industry whole. ”
In short, in the lore of Stalker Apocalypse North Korea seems to occupy a prominent place, being one of the nations coming out better from the nuclear disaster.
Here too we have Kim Jong Un, who becomes ” even more ruthless and starts to experience on his own followers. The North Korean regime has found a way to use the artifacts to control people’s minds sensitive. He wants to create mindless drones. ”
There is a strong feeling that this team Ukrainians seek to exploit all the phenomena of current that can somehow give them some kind of notoriety. Evidence that they are able to re-create an open world and live like those of the original Stalker still there are none.
